Leroy Hood, MD, PhD, Co-director of the NSBCC and President of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, was selected as winner of the Pittcon Heritage Award, which is jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation.  This award recognizes outstanding individuals whose entrepreneurial careers shaped the instrumentation community, inspired achievement, promoted public understanding of the mdoern instrcumentation sciences, and higlighted the role of analyitical chemistry in world economies.

 This award is presented every year at a special ceremony during Pittcon (this year March 2 through March 7), immediately before the Plenary Session, which Dr. Hood delivered this year.

Congratulations Dr. Hood!